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A Sydn£*. paper; ti;en,ts ttp/readei]S-to, $rip on whisky : A Queensland shanty-keeper lately found trouble, to bre\Y'rhis,>whisky hot enough to suit iiis customers, who made repeated calls for something that .would " bite all the way; down. As a last resource, and to saye his ( reputation, the proprietor' mixed lip a' case -of mXjd- f killer, a keg of fusel oil, four 1 bottles?, of' emu oil, and a tub of liair restorer, and then emptied the lot into a barrel of "real Old Bourbon," made at Ipswich. This he called the "" shepherd's delight," audits popularity rose as high as a lawyer's' fees on a libel' action. ' The first man, who tried it fairly screamed with delight, and actually went home and hugged < his mother-in-law 5 the next took two drinks, and then broke his neck trying to ( turn a double somersault over a passing wool dray ; and the third, a travelling hawker, after drinking one 4uart, actually stole his own pack, and planted it in a hollow log. That shanty man is now on the road to fortune— and perhaps a seat in the Upper House. , .
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Waikato Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1540, 18 May 1882, Page 4
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189ABOUT THE PROPER PROOF. Waikato Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1540, 18 May 1882, Page 4
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